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This knife was recovered from a Coffey County archeological site occupied periodically from the Archaic period through the Late Ceramic period. It was donated to the Kansas Historical Society in 2015. The contracting stem indicates that the knife would have been hafted onto a handle.
Date: 7000 BCE-1800 CE
Item Number: 312646
Call Number: 14CF406 2015.E.93
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 312646
Collections - Archeology
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Artifact Class - Chipped Stone
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Artifact Type - Knife
People - American Indians
People - American Indians - Prehistoric Cultures
Places - Counties - Coffey
Thematic Time Period - Early Peoples, 10000 BCE - 1820 CE
Thematic Time Period - Early Peoples, 10000 BCE - 1820 CE - Archaic, 7000 BCE - 1 CE
Thematic Time Period - Early Peoples, 10000 BCE - 1820 CE - Early Ceramic, 1 - 1000 CE
Thematic Time Period - Early Peoples, 10000 BCE - 1820 CE - Late Ceramic, 1500 - 1820 CE
Thematic Time Period - Early Peoples, 10000 BCE - 1820 CE - Middle Ceramic, 1000 - 1500 CE
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